Conformal Structures Associated to Generic Rank 2 Distributions on 5-Manifolds – Characterization and Killing-Field Decomposition

Given a maximally non-integrable 2-distribution D on a 5-manifold M, it was discovered by P. Nurowski that one can naturally associate a conformal structure [g]_D of signature (2,3) on M. We show that those conformal structures [g]_D which come about by this construction are characterized by the exi...

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Main Authors: Matthias Hammerl, Katja Sagerschnig
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: National Academy of Science of Ukraine 2009-08-01
Series:Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.3842/SIGMA.2009.081